Tag: internet
member name: Shava Nerad
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April 10, 2006 02:44 PM EDT --
So if Gather has started with the 25-55 public radio listener in mind, and we are that, who are we -- as a group?. Especially toward the older end of our age bracket, not too many of us are early . . .
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June 02, 2006 08:08 PM EDT --
It seems to me that China has always been a land where communications has been difficult. There has never really been a common culture from Sichuan to Guangdong, from Mongolia to Xinjiang. . . .
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May 10, 2007 01:25 PM EDT --
I remember my parents telling the story about when phone service made it to their community.
People didn't have a convention for answering the phone -- they would lift up the receiver and listen . . .
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October 25, 2007 02:56 AM EDT --
I don't know if you saw CSI:NY last night , but it was a total travesty of information law. The episode portrayed a series of Second Life players involved in a series of assassinations, which CBS . . .
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October 19, 2007 04:25 PM EDT --
Have you read an article on the Village Voice web site since 1/1/2004? Then the Feds may be investigating you. Two executives of Village Voice Media have been arrested for violating grand . . .
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March 26, 2006 12:52 AM EST --
A kid killed six and then shot himself at a party in Seattle tonight.
After fleeing the art center, the scattered community went online to check in with friends and mourn the dead. The Seattle PI . . .
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October 06, 2007 02:43 AM EDT --
The NYTimes reports that the Internet has been completely cut in Burma (Myanmar).
I remember about 15 years ago, when I was one of three engineers running the UNC/Chapel Hill backbone and drop . . .
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January 04, 2008 02:01 PM EST --
Todd Defren , a twitter buddy, passes on the "8 Things You (Probably) Don't Know About Me" meme started by Social Media Group's Maggie Fox.
Here are mine:
1) I'm . . .
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January 10, 2006 12:30 AM EST --
I have always preferred online community that tied into real-life community, using real names and discussing real issues in real space.
But there are certainly reasons for anonymous channels on the net . . .
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June 06, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
It's always a little tricky to report on a news event you've just participated in, but Amnesty International's Irrepressible campaign against Internet censorship just had a conference today . . .
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January 08, 2009 12:35 PM EST --
I spend a lot of time in the virtual world of Second Life -- as well as a lot of time in online games. But they aren't the same.
Second Life is far more than a 3D chat system -- it's . . .
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December 02, 2005 04:57 AM EST --
When I was a kid, there was no public radio in Vermont. The closest I had was a transistor radio, smuggled under my pillow, that picked up WQXR's classical music all the way from New York City . . .
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February 14, 2006 04:38 AM EST --
Last Friday, Homeland Security staged a real-time Internet war game called "Cyber Storm." The AP described it:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government concluded its ''Cyber Storm'' . . .
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December 08, 2005 01:31 PM EST --
AOL and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) published a poll this week (reported in CNET and about 300 other places) that warns that one in four Americans is subject to "phishing" fraud . . .
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January 19, 2006 11:12 PM EST --
Google has rebuffed federal requests to release information on user behavior relating to searches for porn. This information was apparently sought by the Justice Department . . .
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March 08, 2006 01:56 AM EST --
Lauded as "artificial artificial intelligence," Amazon's Mechanical Turk program farms out tasks simple for a human -- but devilish for a computer -- to housewives, students, and overseas . . .
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January 30, 2006 03:46 AM EST --
On a mailing list, someone asked my opinion of the BBC report (worth reading -- if someone finds the original full text, comment it below?) that, in October 2003, Rumsfeld signed a memo saying that we . . .
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February 25, 2006 01:09 AM EST --
Read the whole article. I don't even need to comment on this...
Gonzales withholding Plame emails
by Jason Leopold
February 17, 2006
Sources close to the investigation into the leak of . . .
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December 08, 2005 01:40 PM EST --
As reported by the BBC, "podcast" is the word of the year in the New Oxford American Dictionary.
It's an interesting commentary on publishing cycles that we get the news today, but the word . . .
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March 28, 2006 03:40 PM EST --
Well, I just accepted a job with a new startup -- not even named yet. I am employee #1, since everyone else is still working for free, and my unofficial title is "Shaker of Trees" -- I'm . . .
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